Category: Guatemala

Maya Mam Teachers and Students Keeping Education Moving When a Strike Closed Schools

Maya Mam students in traditional clothing sit in a classroom.

In July 2025, Henry Sales, Ph.D. student in Education and a 2025 Tinker CLACS Research Grant recipient, encountered educational disruptions in Guatemala due to a national teachers' strike, which transformed his research focus. Instead of formal classrooms, he observed Maya Mam communities sustaining learning through cultural practices and community engagement. The experience revealed that education is strengthened through cultural identity, emotional labor, and resilience amid uncertainty.

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The Migrant Caravan and the Midterms

Military controlled displaced people's camp in Guatemala, 1983.

This entry originally appeared as a Letter to the Editor in the October 23, 2018 issue of the New York Times. Readers argue that the G.O.P. is stoking fear and demonizing immigrants rather than taking steps to actually address the issue. By Beatriz Manz Military controlled displaced people's camp in Guatemala, 1983. (Photo by Beatriz Manz.)... Continue Reading →

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Differing Perspectives

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By Sara Green Early in the morning, I rode my bike to Li Ka Shing auditorium to attend The Southern Border course that I am taking as part of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program (FLAS). That day Professor Beatriz Manz was invited to lecture about her anthropological work in Guatemala during the... Continue Reading →

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